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The University of Bradford is hosting the British Society of Proteomics Research Annual Scientific Meeting, with the theme of “One Health and Wellness” from 9-11 July in the Norcroft Conference Centre.

The School of Archaeological & Forensic Sciences expand on their successes in digital heritage with a £20m bid to newly formed UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) for a proposed ‘GCRF Fragile Heritage Hub’.

A leading Bradford scientist has been awarded a grant worth more than £90,000 by research charity Breast Cancer Now to carry out cutting-edge research to uncover why breast cancer is more likely to spread in those with type two diabetes, than in those without the disease.

The Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Sciences (CPES) has secured its second Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Natures Laboratory to support their latest innovation goals using the healing properties of propolis.

Bradford archaeologists are leading a prestigious Royal Society meeting in May 2017, bringing together experts from across the globe to explore how lost underwater landscapes can shed new light on our approaches to climate change.

Archaeologists from the UK are calling on members of the public to help them preserve the legacy of some of the world’s most important monuments and historic sites, including those most at risk in Syria and Libya.

The first underwater excavation of an important World Heritage Site is to go ahead as part of a new research project. An international team, led by the University of Bradford, hopes to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bronze Age settlement at Lake Viverone, one of the most vibrant trading centres for bronze artefacts in Northern Italy.

Researchers from Bradford and Durham have used the scientific analysis of tiny sections of teeth to piece together a clearer understanding of how people were affected by famine in Ireland, and how the introduction of maize as a famine relief food affected those who received it.

On Friday 22nd July Dr Sertip Zangana and Dr Anna Snelling from the School of Medical Sciences hosted a visit from Professor Jennifer Hixon, Chair of Health Sciences and Founding Programme Director of the Physician Assistant programme at Westfield State University, Massachusetts USA.

A new UK study has identified a gene signature that predicts poor survival from ovarian cancer. The study also identified genes which help the cancer develop resistance to chemotherapy — offering a new route to help tackle the disease.

One of the major difficulties that tumours encounter as they grow is a lack of oxygen. This is because they often grow faster than the surrounding blood vessels can adapt to them, and as oxygen that comes out of the blood can only penetrate 3 to 4 layers of cells, the core of the tumour may lack sufficient oxygen, a state known as hypoxia.

Researchers at the University of Bradford are now able to buy a state-of-the-art imaging system to study nerve cells in real time thanks to a £27k funding award from the UK's leading dementia research charity, Alzheimer's Research UK.

The University of Bradford has announced a partnership with leading advanced medical visualisation company iGene to develop a digital autopsy research and teaching capability unique among UK universities.

One of the greatest challenges in cancer medicine and in conducting clinical trials for new cancer treatments is to be able to accurately determine their effectiveness as soon possible after administration.

Prostate cancer is the most common male-specific cancer with around 35,000 new cases each year in the UK, resulting in about 10,000 deaths. Fortunately, there are a wide and generally effective range of treatment options available, chief amongst which is hormone therapy, aimed at blocking androgen (testosterone) production.

One of the principal reasons that cancer has proven so difficult to cure is its extreme variability – every patient effectively has a different disease, which will have different reactions to cancer drugs and other therapies.

In early 2016 the number of individuals diagnosed with diabetes in the UK hit 4 million. Sugar has become the new enemy of good health and is associated with obesity, although the relationship between sugar-sweetened drinks and body weight remains controversial.

Thankfully major adverse effects of experimental drugs in Phase 1 clinical trials are rare, so we are very shocked by the news that six volunteers who were given the Bial drug BIA 10-2474 are seriously ill.

Archaeological investigation of our distant past often relies upon ephemeral evidence for structures, microscopic plant remains, small pottery shards, and, as one well known comedian stated, "a series of small walls".

Researchers from the University of Bradford have joined forces with German high-tech company, Avant-garde Materials Simulation, to successfully predict the crystal structures of small organic molecules by computational methods without experimental input.

One of the most significant challenges in treating cancer is its heterogeneous nature - it is a disease with highly variable origins, mutations, and behaviour, and consequently it also varies considerably with respect to its response to treatment.

Dr Samar Betmouni participated in the Royal College of Pathologists exhibition (26th-29th October 2015) at the House of Commons to raise awareness amongst parliamentarians of the contribution of pathology to healthcare.

Rickets has been identified in a Neolithic skeleton from the Scottish island of Tiree, making it the earliest case of the disease in the UK, according to research announced at the British Science Festival in Bradford.

The University of Bradford, in collaboration with the Turkana Basin Institute, has begun a countdown to recruit an army of 'citizen scientists' to help discover fossils and ancient artefacts using a unique online platform - Fossilfinder.

The University of Bradford will become a hub for the development of healthcare apps and other digital healthcare solutions after becoming the first UK higher education institution to be awarded NHS England Code4Health Community status: Code4Health University of Bradford.